"It changed everything": The safe Home care qualitative study of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on home care aides, clients, and managers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home care (HC) services are crucial to the health and social wellbeing of older adults, people with disabilities, and the chronically ill. Although the HC sector is growing rapidly in the USA, there is high job turnover among the HC aide workforce. HC provides an important alternative to facility-based care, yet it has often been overlooked within the larger health care system: most recently, in COVID-19 pandemic planning. The objective of the study was to characterize qualitatively the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on three key HC stakeholders: clients, aides, and agency managers.

Methods

The study included 37 phone interviews conducted during April - November 2020: HC clients (n = 9), aides (n = 16), and agency managers (n = 12). All interviews were audio reco

SUBMITTER: Markkanen P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8491760 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature